Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boldness of her eyes when she had greeted him had spoken of no social fear . |
| 2 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 3 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 4 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 5 | Weinberger 's stated position was that he had disapproved of the entire operation . |
| 6 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 7 | His Excellency showed me a film he had taken of the three northern islands of the Tonga group which — being some 300 miles north of the main island — are invariably overlooked by such few visitors as Tonga receives . |
| 8 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
| 9 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 10 | He would be able to tell them that he had disposed of the offending creature and was in no danger . |
| 11 | He had read of a distinguished army career , of a decoration won on the field of battle for bravery , his invaliding out of the army , the fight against injury , and his selfless life as an East End doctor . |
| 12 | This ca n't be good for him , thought Denis , and he remembered the story he had read of an old man in England , although younger than Uncle Mick was now , who lined up to receive the very first old age pension ever issued in England and dropped down dead as soon as his money was passed over the counter to him . |
| 13 | He had talked of a new prisoner — too much to hope that he would speak of anything other than the camp — a prisoner who was an Englishman . |
| 14 | Years earlier he had resided briefly at a clinic with Vivien , where Robert Sencourt claimed to have first met them both : and earlier still he had spoken of a mental condition of ‘ long-standing ’ . |
| 15 | She thought he was a hard man because he had spoken of the sturdy beggars as no better than wolves to be strung up on trees as a warning to others ; he certainly had not helped her to escape out of pity . |
| 16 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |